…she paused, looked at me seriously, and added,
“But next time, can we do it without you checking your phone so much?”
I froze, smile fading slightly. She snuggled in closer, already drifting off to sleep, unaware of the quiet thunderclap she’d just dropped on my heart.
That night, I lay awake thinking—not about work, or tomorrow’s to-do list, but about how the best gift I could give her was not wrapped in paper or hidden in a store…
It was my presence. My full, undivided presence.